If you are a Toronto Hydro customer there is a new promotion available that offers $75 dollar gift cards to over 250 leading retailers of your choice. All you have to do is sign up for peaksaver a new service from Toronto Hydro that cuts down your air conditioners energy consumption during peak hours. If you sign up for the service Toronto Hydro will install a device to your air conditioner that will reduce its energy consumption. The service helps the power companies save money and consumers should not notice any major difference in the temperature of their homes.

After the peaksaver device has been installed you will be contacted to make your choice of the available gift cards. Gift cards are available for Harvey’s, Swiss Chalet, Winners, HMV, Cineplex, Kelsey’s, Canadian Tire, the Home Depot and hundreds more.

Head over to Toronto Hydro’s Website to sign up or call 1-877-487-8574 Mon – Fri between 8am and 9pm. Be sure to use the following promotion code: DM200901
If the electrical bill is still too large after installing the peaksaver system considering selling your cards on Giftah, a online marketplace for buying and selling gift cards.

Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) will join other Canadian provinces in regulating consumer gift cards from retail stores. The Attorney General Gerard Greenan says the government has received many gift card related complaints from the provinces consumers who had been surprised with short expiration dates, service fees or stores giving gift cards for returned merchandise instead of cash refunds. Greenan said the new legislation would ensure that consumers can make a purchase with a gift card without having to worry about it expiring or its balance being deducted. Currently Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador are the only provinces that do not legislate gift cards.

Giftah strongly supports any legislation to combat expiry dates or balance deductions on gift cards. No matter how much time has passed since a gift cards purchase there is no legitimate reason why it should expire or lose its balance. If retailers do not like keeping track of old card balances then we can all go back to paper gift certificates and cash refunds on merchandise returns. If your do get stuck with a gift card you don’t want or need you can sell your gift card on Giftah.